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Manuscript Name | Papers of Janet Shaw |
Manuscript Number | MSS 343 |
Last Updated | June 2021 |
Extent | 1 box |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Drafts and manuscripts of short stories written for In this house by Janet Shaw |
Literary
This collection relates to author Janet Shaw and contains drafts and manuscripts for short stories with some annotations, ultimately published in In this house (1990)
1989-1990
Janet Shaw was born in 1959 in Melbourne and began writing in 1981 during her first and only year of secondary teaching. Along with teaching creative writing, Shaw has published short stories for children and adults in anthologies and magazines, winning multiple awards including the ‘Writers for the young’ fellowship in 1983, and the Judah Waten story writing competition in 1987. In 1990 she published In this house, a collection of 18 short stories about home and the need to belong
References:
Austlit : Janet Shaw https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6755 retrieved 16 October 2020
Oxford Reference : Shaw, Janet https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100500566 retrieved 16 October 2020
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Papers of Janet Shaw, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 343, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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Janet Shaw 1959- — Archives
Australian short stories — 20th century
Janet Shaw 1959-
Authors
Folder 1
Drafts of short stories for In this house, handwritten and typewritten, annotated:
Fighting
Tapping the mosaic
Vealers
Bargain
[Beer and cakes]
All the colours
Taxi
Folder 2
Drafts of short stories for In this house, handwritten and typewritten, annotated:
Understand this fear
[Pigs]
[A proper family]
A nice thing
Breathing up to heaven
‘Road house’ (first version) retitled Someone else running
‘Roadhouse No. 2’ - ‘Without wasting time’ retitled Someone else running
Folder 3
Typewritten, annotated manuscript of In this house, copyright 1989
Folder 4
Typewritten copy of Going the wrong way and other stories, copyright 1989
Folder 5
Typewritten short stories from In this house:
Someone else running
Understand this fear
Fighting
Tapping the mosaic